{"id":547942,"date":"2006-02-08T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T09:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547942-eu-internet-domain-names-available.html"},"modified":"2006-02-08T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T09:53:39","slug":"eu-internet-domain-names-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547942-eu-internet-domain-names-available.html","title":{"rendered":"eu’ internet domain names available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two months after the .eu domain name was launched for public\u00a0 institutions and trademark holders, the tag was opened up to\u00a0 companies other than those seeking a site for a brand, as well as\u00a0 for art works and literature. <\/font><\/p>\n

Within the first hour, sex.eu domain had received 23\u00a0 applications, followed by schumacher.eu with 15, realestate.eu with\u00a0 12 and business.eu also with 12 applications, according to the\u00a0 European Registry of Internet Domain Names (Eurid). <\/font><\/p>\n

In the first 15 minutes Eurid — a non-profit organisation\u00a0 appointed by the European Commission to manage requests – received\u00a0 27,949 applications overall and after one hour the number had risen\u00a0 to 71,235. <\/font><\/p>\n

The ".eu" domain name is not supposed to replace national\u00a0 endings such as ".fr" and ".de" but rather offer the possibility of\u00a0 a pan-European identity in cyberspace. Germans led the way by mid afternoon making up 30.5 % of\u00a0 the total applications received to date followed by the Netherlands\u00a0 with 16 percent and France with 10.6 %. <\/font><\/p>\n

Individuals will have to wait until the second quarter of 2006\u00a0 before trying to get access to their own veritable European piece of\u00a0 the Internet. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Hundreds of thousands of businesses raced on Tuesday to snap up “.eu” internet domain names, with “sex.eu” taking the prize for the most sought-after address on the first day companies could apply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}